Monday, September 17, 2012

Face Blindness

I decided to take the face blind test because I had actually
never heard of it and could not even fathom the idea that people cannot
recognize faces.I sometimes think about
the idea that we are all humans with eyes, noses, mouths, cheeks, and lips, but
we all manage to look completely different.It is hard for me to look at the different parts of the face because I take
them all in at once.In class we talked
about how people with face blindness have difficulty viewing the face as a whole.This idea blew my mind and I knew I should
take the test and see for myself.

Results

Out of 30 faces, you correctly identified 25.You were familiar with 28 of the
people in this test.

If we exclude the ones you were unfamiliar with, you got 89% correct.

On our
previous version of this test, the average person with normal face recognition
was able to recognize about 85% of the faces they were familiar with. If you
missed more than half of the faces you were familiar with, this may indicate
face recognition difficulties.

Above are my results from the test and I was actually
surprised I didn’t get a 95% or higher.During
class we discussed how the issue with face blindness takes place in
processing.This concept is so difficult
for me to grasp because even when I could not remember the first or last name
of the person, I knew their face and could name the movies or TV shows that I recognized
them from.There were only about three
people I had never seen or heard of before and a few I completely did not know
their face.

Despite the fact that I was unable to recognize three faces,
it is still hard for me to grasp the idea that people actually struggle with
this on a severe daily level.

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